A Book Quotes

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books?

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

A great book should leave you with many experiences.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

The heart is the only book worth reading.

Forget about every other lesson in the book. You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.

Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.

If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I still want to study. I don't want to stop.

Book values have some good and some bad features.

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.